Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?

[WDFW-SUX]

My dad used to have a pet flying squirrel way back when. He said it was a great pet.

 

I've never seen one.

Bigfoot has one as a pet too!

[coonhound]

Years ago I was falling timber out near Mossyrock, it was a 200 acre patch of alder and maple.  Some these maples were huge, you'd fall them and sometimes 5 or 6 flying squirrels would come gliding out.  The odd thing is often they would run back and perch on the stump, made ya feel kinda bad for the little buggers.  Other than that job I've only seen one...it was in a tree near my back yard.

Coon

[seaduckhunter]

High School field trip on Mt. Pilchuck the teacher would take a big stick and hit under the holes of hollow trees in the old growth and he finally scared out one and it glided to the nearest tree to hide pretty cool.  Guess there is quite of few of them out there.

[Pathfinder101]

My dad used to have a pet flying squirrel way back when. He said it was a great pet.

 

I've never seen one.

Bigfoot has one as a pet too!

Yes, but his is a Great White Wooly Sabertooth Flying Cave Squirrel...

[the shootist]

I saw one in estern wa. about 15 or 20 years ago up by eloika lake. pretty cool

[Rack]

Me and a buddy were looking at a big muddy elk wallow, heard this wooosh and then splat,
a douglas squirrel must of misssd his branch and flew, straight down, hit two ft in front of us
we looked at him stuck in the mud tryin to get out. looked at each other and started laughing.
he got out and took off.

[Mudeater]

Years ago I was falling timber out near Mossyrock, it was a 200 acre patch of alder and maple.  Some these maples were huge, you'd fall them and sometimes 5 or 6 flying squirrels would come gliding out.  The odd thing is often they would run back and perch on the stump, made ya feel kinda bad for the little buggers.  Other than that job I've only seen one...it was in a tree near my back yard.

Coon

Saw a bunch like that on a sale we were cutting on one of the old sol duck units. One came out of a tree and hit one of the green horns we had that was buckin for me that day, poor guy about crapped himself, fell down thinking he got shmucked by a widowmaker, I about pissed my self I was laughing so hard

[coriantonk]

When I was A kid we lived outside Orting and our Golden Lab caught one and brought it to us.  We had that thing for about a year, kept it in an old 5 foot tall bird cage.  Every so often it would escape and climb up on the mantle above the wood stove and then glide across the living room.  It really freaked out the cat for a while. 

[jdb]

Flying squirrels. Sounds like good target practice.

ya buddy!

[rasbo]

never seen one here

[Ray]

Most of the flying squirrels I have seen are usually getting some lift off by way of my .223. The flyers go up about 4 - 5 feet sometime with gymnastic death spins. Hitting them right near the base of their body seems to work best. Then their bretheren come in and nibble on the leftovers.

[saylean]

I saw a chipmuck take a nose dive at about 40 ft off a tree, while being chased by a squirrel....thats as close as I have seen.

[Idabooner]

Hears a flying squirrel story I posted way back. http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,333.msg2556.html#msg2556

They are mostly nocturnal animals, they can't see good in the day time. That's why people seldom see them.  They are most active in the moon light in open timber.  Back when I was cutting logs we used to get a nesting tree every now and then.  One day I captured two of them and stuck them in my empty lunch box.  That night when the wife opened the box and the squirrels jumped out she about crapped, I about split a gut laughing but she didn't think that was a bit funny.